Kinematic inversion of physically plausible earthquake source models obtained from dynamic rupture simulations

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2621-2644

  Konca, Ali Ozgun ^a   Kaneko, Yoshihiro ^b   Lapusta, Nadia ^c   Avouac, Jean Philippe ^d  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT LIMITATION; EARTHQUAKE SCENARIO; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE MODELS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS; FUNCTION PARAMETERS; INVERSION PROCEDURE; KINEMATIC INVERSION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROPS; KINEMATICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GREEN FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SLIP; STRESS;

EID: 84884931079     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120358     Document Type: Article

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